Chapter 8 of The Inn is now live on Literotica.com!
And there's still time to vote for Contrast and Big Flipping Deal in the Readers Choice Awards:
Literotica Readers Choice Awards
Best Interracial Story (Contrast Ch. 04)
Best Transsexuals & Crossdressers Story (Big Flipping Deal Ch. 07)
Voting closes early morning Sunday May 1, so if you haven't voted yet please hurry!
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Sex & Sorcery 2!
As promised, here's the Amazon link to Sex & Sorcery 2! And the cover! (Which is also a link to the publisher's page for the book.)
I've read the first four stories so far, and enjoyed them all. One was a little sillier than the others, but it had hot lesbians in it, so I'm willing to make allowances. I'm especially happy to see that these are actual storytelling stories, not just excuses to write sex scenes in a fantasy setting. (Not that sex scenes are lacking here, though!)
My story, "A Harem of Harpies," features one of my favorite old D&D characters, Chortle Bonegrinder, a jackal-headed barbarian I invented because I didn't feel like my play group really had a good handle on what "Chaotic Neutral" meant. I had a blast writing about Chortle again (last time I did so was about 5 years ago), and now I'm thinking I might need to write more Chortle stories once I finish up The Inn. And publish Contrast. And Big Flipping Deal. And the mainstream fantasy novel I finished the first draft on back in December.
So much to do!
Anyway, I'd be delighted for you to pick up S&S2, which I can't imagine you'll regret if you like sword and sorcery tales and erotica. It's 100,000+ words and only $2.99 -- more than worth it just for the four I've read so far.
I've read the first four stories so far, and enjoyed them all. One was a little sillier than the others, but it had hot lesbians in it, so I'm willing to make allowances. I'm especially happy to see that these are actual storytelling stories, not just excuses to write sex scenes in a fantasy setting. (Not that sex scenes are lacking here, though!)
My story, "A Harem of Harpies," features one of my favorite old D&D characters, Chortle Bonegrinder, a jackal-headed barbarian I invented because I didn't feel like my play group really had a good handle on what "Chaotic Neutral" meant. I had a blast writing about Chortle again (last time I did so was about 5 years ago), and now I'm thinking I might need to write more Chortle stories once I finish up The Inn. And publish Contrast. And Big Flipping Deal. And the mainstream fantasy novel I finished the first draft on back in December.
So much to do!
Anyway, I'd be delighted for you to pick up S&S2, which I can't imagine you'll regret if you like sword and sorcery tales and erotica. It's 100,000+ words and only $2.99 -- more than worth it just for the four I've read so far.
Sunday, April 17, 2016
New Serial! New Short Story! Awards!!!
I've been a less-than-zealous blogger lately ... but not because I've been entirely slacking! After finishing up the first draft of Big Flipping Deal last summer, I went back to a mainstream fantasy novel I'd put on hold and wrapped up the first draft near the end of the year. Since then, I've been writing away on a new erotic fantasy series on Literotica: The Inn.
But in the midst of The Inn, an editor contacted me and suggested I submit a story to Uruk Press' erotic fantasy anthology series, Sex & Sorcery. I promptly fired up my short-story brain and did what I think is a pretty bang-up job on a tale called, "A Harem of Harpies," which made the cut and will appear in Sex & Sorcery 2, due out any day now. I'll post a link to the book's Amazon page as soon as it's available.
Finally, I have been horribly remiss in begging for votes! Both Big Flipping Deal and Contrast were nominated for Readers Choice Awards on Literotica.com. Big Flipping Deal is currently in front of the competition by a hair, but after a strong start, Contrast has fallen way behind. Please, please, please, vote at the links below! I will be eternally grateful.
Literotica Readers Choice Awards
Best Interracial Story (Contrast Ch. 04)
Best Transsexuals & Crossdressers Story (Big Flipping Deal Ch. 07)
Voting closes early morning Sunday May 1, so don't delay!
But in the midst of The Inn, an editor contacted me and suggested I submit a story to Uruk Press' erotic fantasy anthology series, Sex & Sorcery. I promptly fired up my short-story brain and did what I think is a pretty bang-up job on a tale called, "A Harem of Harpies," which made the cut and will appear in Sex & Sorcery 2, due out any day now. I'll post a link to the book's Amazon page as soon as it's available.
Finally, I have been horribly remiss in begging for votes! Both Big Flipping Deal and Contrast were nominated for Readers Choice Awards on Literotica.com. Big Flipping Deal is currently in front of the competition by a hair, but after a strong start, Contrast has fallen way behind. Please, please, please, vote at the links below! I will be eternally grateful.
Literotica Readers Choice Awards
Best Interracial Story (Contrast Ch. 04)
Best Transsexuals & Crossdressers Story (Big Flipping Deal Ch. 07)
Voting closes early morning Sunday May 1, so don't delay!
How to Fix the Internet
So here's a pretty depressing article about the disproportionate targeting of women by comment trolls.
I've scratched my head for ages trying to figure out how you can retain freedom of speech and anonymity on the web without all of us having to suffer the bullshit antics of playground bullies who never got past a middle-school maturity level in their psychological development. Thankfully, this article gave me a great idea.
In order to post anywhere, you've generally got to agree to the site's terms of service, right? So all we need to do is get public sites to include the following in those terms: the user also agrees that if any authorized moderator or filtering system should determine the comment to be hate speech or harassment, the comment will be either deleted or translated by our "Play Nice" software into a form that expresses more appropriate content.
Then all troll comments can be run through an AI translating system that makes them say nice things instead of shitty ones.
For example, a comment reading, "Ian Saul Whitcomb is a piece-of-shite whore who should fuck off and die!" would be translated into "Ian Saul Whitcomb is a piece-of-relief genius who should be lavished with affection and live forever!"
It wouldn't necessarily end up being difficult to see that a comment thread had a lot of trolls attempting to hijack it, but they wouldn't actually be able to spread their poison, and the rest of us wouldn't be exposed to their abuse.
Okay, troll-fighters! Somebody with web programming skills get right on this.
I've scratched my head for ages trying to figure out how you can retain freedom of speech and anonymity on the web without all of us having to suffer the bullshit antics of playground bullies who never got past a middle-school maturity level in their psychological development. Thankfully, this article gave me a great idea.
In order to post anywhere, you've generally got to agree to the site's terms of service, right? So all we need to do is get public sites to include the following in those terms: the user also agrees that if any authorized moderator or filtering system should determine the comment to be hate speech or harassment, the comment will be either deleted or translated by our "Play Nice" software into a form that expresses more appropriate content.
Then all troll comments can be run through an AI translating system that makes them say nice things instead of shitty ones.
For example, a comment reading, "Ian Saul Whitcomb is a piece-of-shite whore who should fuck off and die!" would be translated into "Ian Saul Whitcomb is a piece-of-relief genius who should be lavished with affection and live forever!"
It wouldn't necessarily end up being difficult to see that a comment thread had a lot of trolls attempting to hijack it, but they wouldn't actually be able to spread their poison, and the rest of us wouldn't be exposed to their abuse.
Okay, troll-fighters! Somebody with web programming skills get right on this.
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
No Argument Here
This guy's a smart blogger I like. Occasionally, his pet theories miss the mark, but usually, like this one, they're pretty good.
A good portion of guys need to get their acts together. I'd like to think it's a minority, but some days I'm not so sure.
That's not to say you ladies out there are perfect! But when it comes to being unmarriagably awful, the guys probably do take the lead by a fair margin.
Sorry, guys. Chin up, though. Odds are, if you're reading this blog, you're one of the okay ones.
A good portion of guys need to get their acts together. I'd like to think it's a minority, but some days I'm not so sure.
That's not to say you ladies out there are perfect! But when it comes to being unmarriagably awful, the guys probably do take the lead by a fair margin.
Sorry, guys. Chin up, though. Odds are, if you're reading this blog, you're one of the okay ones.
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